multiline to textarea

[Gasolene]

i have a table in a mysql database that has multi lines.

i use javascript to populate textarea controls but the multiline causes a break in the java code which causes errors.

how do i get a multiline field into a textarea??

[weekender]

maybe post some code to help us? and please, only relevant code - not the entire internet - as beer makes the eyes tired.

at first guess, maybe use ereg functions to replace "<BR>" with "/n" in the code?

[Gasolene]

<textarea name="notes" class="textbox" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>

<?
     ...
     print "<script>";
     print "document.form1.notes.value = '$row[Notes]';";
     print "</script>";
     ...
?>

[result html src code]

<textarea name="notes" class="textbox" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>

<script>
document.form1.notes.value = 'line1
line2
line3'
</script>

-----------------------------------------
this causes javascript errors

[weekender]

ok change the js line to match this

print "document.form1.notes.value = '" . nl2br($row[Notes]) . "';";

the function nl2br takes a string and changes all the newline \n to html <BR>'s the code now won't break the js

adam

[Gasolene]

thnx

[Gasolene]

<script>
document.form1.notes.value = 'line1
<br>line2
<br>line3'
</script>

still gives javascript error

[johnnyv]

Originally posted by Gasolene

<textarea name="notes" class="textbox" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>

<?
     ...
     print "<script>";
     print "document.form1.notes.value = '$row[Notes]';";
     print "</script>";
     ...
?>

[result html src code]

<textarea name="notes" class="textbox" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>

<script>
document.form1.notes.value = 'line1
line2
line3'
</script>

-----------------------------------------
this causes javascript errors [/B][/QUOTE] 

do it this way

<textarea name="notes" class="textbox" cols="50" rows="5"><?php echo $row['notes'];  ?></textarea>

avoid using javascript completely
I thougth you had multiline input from database? if you are and you are gonna do: echo $row['notes1'].$row['notes2'].$row['notes3']; add newlines (textblocks use \n for line breaks not <br>) eg) echo $row['notes1']."\n".$row['notes2']."\n".$row['notes3'];